armarium

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Thus in the ten-century rule of Cluny the library is called armarium, and the official who had charge of it armarius, while by an arrangement which was long and widely observed both in Benedictine and in other monastic houses, this armarius, or librarian, was usually identical with the precentor.

Note 30: Epistolae, 2.7.8: "Parieti eius cubiculi mei in bibliothecae speciem armarium insertum est quod non legendos libros sed letitandos capit" (My cubiculum has a press let into the wall that does duty as a library, and holds books not merely to be read, but read over and over again).

For his part, Petrarch had resuscitated such classical authors as Pliny the Younger, who in his private letters described his study — "cubiculi mei" — as located near the bedroom and furnished with an armarium containing books to be read "over and over again."